Flavour of the Month Sept-Oct 2019 De Laporte Waterhole and Surroundings

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De Laporte - 2017



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By Pumbaa in drought 2016:

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Bushcraft 2016:

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A 2015 Bushcraft experience:

A strange sight was waiting for us at De Laporte and at first we didn’t know what was potting, but soon figured out that a giraffe had fallen into the waterhole and couldn’t get out.



The ox peckers had also worked out that this giraffe was in shock and wasn’t moving around much, so they were all over its pip.



We weren’t sure what to make of the situation, but someone had obviously phoned Skukuza as minutes later a SANParks vehicle arrived. We couldn’t see due to the number of cars arriving, but it looked as if they darted the giraffe and used the car to pull it out of the water.

The general feedback was that the giraffe was ok and it would sleep off the drugs.



Some ellies had also arrived in this time frame but didn’t venture near the waterhole with all the commotion going on, so we drove 100m up the road to check them out before turning and heading back for camp.

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And by Bushcraft in 2013:

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Always a busy waterhole

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The bridge at De Laporte has a truly dismal history of construction after being destroyed by floods in early 2012.

It was sort of fixed after 10 months:





Then washed away again the following January...

And construction carried on by the ACME Roadbuilding Company with repeated washouts:

2014:

2015:

It is fixed now!

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Kruger Sightings
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8:00 am
1 lion stationary
H1-1, De Laporte Dam, 6.6km S of Skukuza
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Near Skukuza
Tinged by Yvette
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